Charles of Holy-Marthe
Charles of Holy-Marthe , French writer, born with Fontevrault.
It was the second of the twelve children of Gaucher of Holy-Marthe, doctor ordinary of François Ier. Receipt doctor in right to Poitiers, it gave public lessons of theology to it, towards 1537, and was suspected of sharing the new opinions. Withdrawn with Grenoble, he there was shown of Luthéranisme, was continued and put in prison, where there remained two years and half. Stripped from all its goods, he escaped roughing-hew only by simulating the madness, and by the protection of two advisers to the Parlement of Grenoble. It was withdrawn with Lyon, where it gave lessons of Greek, of Hebrew and of French, when Marguerite de Valois, queen of Navarre, called it near her with Alençon, of which she was duchess, and of which she made it criminal lieutenant, place that he exerted in 1562 more there. He died in Alençon, old of at least 45 years.
He composed, so much in prose than in worms, several works which did not survive to him. However, one still reads with interest his Funeral oration of Marguerite de Valois, whom it initially published in Latin, Paris, 1550, in-4° dee more than one hundred pages, and that it gave in French the following year. It offers to details curious and interesting relating to the queen of Navarre, on which, allowed in its intimacy, the author had collected characteristics that one does not find elsewhere, and which makes cherish the memory of this princess, sister of François Ier and grandmother of Henri IV.